Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?.-a TBE SITUATION ABOUT SANTIAGO. _ i Gomes Koyiag to tbe Coast -Daring #ork by Amer? icans. Oft' Santiago de Coba, Th ar sd ay Afternoon, June 9, via Kingston. Ja? maica, Jone IO, 12 30 p. m -In San? tiago de Cuba there are now aboot 20, OOO Spanish soldiers, chiefly infantry, bot with a fair contingent of cavalry and field artillery drawn from the sur? rounding country. During the day cavalry skirmish in the vicinity of the city, returning at night to bar? racks During the last few days the activity of Spaniards has been par t?riar?y noticeable. The insurgents, about 5,000 strong, v have taken a position on a mountain to the westward. Two thousand in? surgents of thia gathering are un? armed Gen Jtfaiimo Gomez, now .bout 150 miles inland, is making bis way toward the coast Admiral - Sampson ia actively co operating with the insurgents. Tho naval officers have been doing splendid and daring work in carrying ? communications to the insurgents, landing arma and making trips ashore for the purpose of gaining informa tion. Lient Sharp of the Vixen and Lieut. Commander Delehanty of the Suwanee have been daily entrusted with important missions and nave carried them oat successfully. The Vixen's work has been chiefly con : fined to carrying messages to and fro, bot f.he Suwanee bas been occa - pied io s more, serious task This little gunboat has landed 300,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, 300 Springfield rifles, 100 carbines, 2,000 m achet?e, with equipments and provisions. These wese handed over ip800 insurgents yesterday (Wednes? day) about 15 miles west of Santia? go, themain body remaining in the mountains INSURGENTS NEED SUPPLIES. The debarkation of supplies was tedious but uninterrupted. The in? surgents reported that irregul?r en? gagements between their forces and the Spanish cavalry were of daily oe ca?vence. The Cubans were bard up for supplies and ammunition and were overjoyed at the sight of the Suwanee's cargo Some, *lmost rsv enoos, hacked at the slices of tacon and ate raw beef. They had been living on limes, cocoanut? and sweet potatoes. Ensign Gilpin of the Su wanee went ashore and accompanied the Cubans to their temporary camp ?Dlaod, where he found ten or a dozen wounded men badly in need of sur? gical attendance. Bandages for them were sect from the Suwanee Tbs casualties were the results of a brash on the previous night with Spanish cavalry. To the correspondent of the As sociated Press on the dispatch boat Wanda, Ensign Gilpin, describing bis experience at the camp, which is about 10 miies inland, said : "I foond tbe insurgents a rough , looking lot of boys and old men, rigged ont any way. carrying arms of al! sorta and al! anxious to borrow anything I had from my blouse to my revolver Four Spanish soldiers iu uniform, carrying rifles, marched into the camp while I waa there and said they wanted to join the insur gents They were enrolled, bot a cbse watch was Kept on them, as they belonged to the civil guard A Cuban officer told me such additions vere oct infrequent. The Spaniards Jad Manser rifles, which were in fair y good condition " Conservative authorities believe he United States troops will have to iarry oat their plan of campaign without placing much reliance upon the iiiBurgents. Several plucky young officers, like Ensign Gilpin, have made trips ashore and taken observations. of . the interior harbor i nd the fortifications, locating the exact positions of Admiral Cervera's four ship? It is hardly likely, how? ever, that the Spanish admiral keeps them moored at the same place both cay and night. More than once the efficers engaged in this shore dqty ii ave bad narrow escapes from falling in with the enemy's cavalry. HigSinud Light, Mass, June 13 - Tbe flftftbip San Francisco, with Commander Howell ou board, while attempting to round Cape Cod in a hsavy fog, went ashore near High fc ead life saving station at 7 o'clock this morniog, but by the bard work of tte crew be cbrew over a large quantity of coal aad balast, and with the assis? tance of four togs from Boston she came ol!! at 6 o'clock apparently uninjured. James Joh o soc, colored, bsa been ci evicted of murder io the secocd degree by the circuit court of Bartow eoaoty, for tbe killing of Joel Collins of Lakeland, Fla. Johnson is a prirate in tba Twenty-fourth Infantry of R?gu? lai F. Washington, June 14 -Officials of tbs navy depv tment state this morn in, j that toe troopa now en route from Koy Weat should arrive at Santiago on Thursday at latest The landing j will consume at least a day and per- j haps longer, and no aggressive for-1 wtffd movement from Guantanamo, where tho landing will be made, is thought possible before Sunday or Monday. I TILLMAN'S PLATFORM. Will Ruo for Govern or on a County Liquor License Lo? cal Option Flatform. j Denounces the Dispensary as a ! Boga State Monopoly ana a Po I litical Machine, and Urges the Principle of Self Government. Ex Congressman Geo D Tillman has issued an address to the public in I which he indicates bis purpose to be% j a candidate for governor on a plat form favoring thc sale of liquor under county licenses, each county to have the right to say by popular vote whether it will license liquor selling or have prohibition The proceeds of licenses he proposes to devote en ! ti rely to general conn ty purposes and not to schools Of coarse, ander the constitution, the licenses woald al? low the sale of liquor only in qoan titles not lesa than one-half pint, not to be drank on the premises; He opposes giving the income from licenses to the public schools be? cause, he says : "The public school tax is too large already for the comfort of white tax payera, especially laud owners. It is notorious that the tax on personal property ia thia State as regards rela? tive market value ia not aa high aa that on real estate, presumably ont of deference to the wishes of the nu? merous non-landowning whits votera. lt is equally notorious that cash, stocks, bonds, notes of hand, income, etc , of the rich habitually and sue cessfully for the most part evade taxes while land bas the brunt to bear Besides, the poor laboring white man who has no property at all, most now. either alway? pay ii is poll tax for public schools oir iose his right to vote. . .* Whatever others may think. I take credit to m j self for having voted in the Constitutional convention against the 3 mill tax for public schools. While favoring the reten lion of the 2 mill tax I could not see either the wisdom or justice of first calling a convention to disfranchise the negro, then levying 1 8 mill tax on the white man's property to help educate the negro. "Net only should public schools get no share of the net income from whiskey, but there are even stronger reasons why 'municipal corporations' should not have any of it The framers of the constitution mast have thought so too or they would net have prohibited the legislature from ever 'delegating (fae..power^to issue license to . any municipal corpora? tion^" Mr Tillman adds : "In contending that no municipal corporation should enjoy ary part of the profits on whiskey, whether sold by a dispensary State officer or by a private license of a county, I may give-offence to the towns/ but as 1 seek the good of the * whole State, not of a iocality, class or interest, I shalt speak the truth as I see it. I affirm that no municipal corporation ought to object to ita own local voters and the rural voters of its couaty act in aa a single electorate. 3rs \ grant? ing license to sell whiskey in the towns and then putting all the license money into the county treasury for county purposes, because the town can -collect either fine? enough or exact labor enough on its public works to adequately punish every petty drunken offence against ita or finances, especially as the enanty treasury at last has to bear ithe whole burden of punishing all aggravated offences as well as supporting all paupers and pauper lunatics, made so in whole or in part by too much whis? key drinking. ^ "There may be some color of jus? tification for a town that is not a county seat to license the sale of liquor and then appropriate tile prof? its, bot there is not a shadow of right for a court. bouse town to claim such a privilege, because every county town belongs to the people of the whole county, and was established for their benefit, and if a majority of the votera, orban and rora!, acting as one joint electorate, decide l o license whiskey, and put all license money into the county treasury, they should be permitted to do it Such a course would simply be asserting the God given right of sell govern ment, by local option against the State's present hage monopoly of the whiskey trafile. For many reasons every county should have at least one convenient place for the people to buy good suspected whiskey And what better place than its coun? ty seat ? But no town, whether a pri? vate one, so to speak, or a county seat ought io good conscience to desire the neighboring rural voters of a county to contribute to the main ? tenance of its local police, its streets, side walks, 'public buildings, shade trees, water supply, sanitation, etc , yet this outrage was generally against rural voters for a long while prior to the advent of the dispensary, when no authority could grant license to I sell liquor except an incorporated town, and when rural voters were deprived, not only of all voice in j deciding 'license or no license/ but had also to furnish most of the patron- j age to pay the license tax while the j towns got all, or most of it, although the county bad to meet the whole cost of punishing all high crimes and misdemeanors, as well as supporting all pauper and pauper lunatics sup posed to have been made euch by licensed whiskey. lt was just such accumulation of iniquities as those that aroused the former bitter prejudice and jealousy of the country people against the towns which displayed itself vigor oosly in 1890 and again manifested its deep rooted strength in 1892, where a majority of the voters at a side election declared for prohibition, and j it has unmi8tabably exhibited itself a third time in patiently submitting to the tyrannical dispensary substitute for prohibition, and although that substitute has proven an unwise, cor? rupt and extravagant failure yet rural voters are still ready to try any other metbod of licensing whiskey, than going back to the old one sided plan of having the towns boss the job and pocket the ptofits. "The only other cause that probab? ly contributed a good deal to that surprising prohibition vote in 1892 was disgust at the general adultera tion of bar room whiskey that then prevailed by reason of the absence of any expert official inspection to pre? vent it, a defect since partially re medied by the dispensary whicb is the only original redeeming feature of the dispensary., and a feature that can easily be ingrafted on a county license system "Rural voters should ponder well the present absurd state of our dis pen&ary license law, in that, although the constitution seems to forbid any town granting license, yet, such town can and does still establish a State dispensary bar, despite neighboring rural voters, who are just as helpless as they ever were abont a town granting license, and then getting a large part of tbe "net income for town purposes " It was intended to bribe the towns to get them to sup . port State bars against county bars as the price for allowing the towns "local option," while denying it to rural voters altogether Gan the lat? ter continue to be hoodwinked much longer ? Rustic voters out of self respect should punish such double dealing. "The forty counties in ^he State by a moderate license at each court house, and at.numerous other eligible towns, could probably pay $300,000 a year into their several county treasuries In Joly, 1893, according to Governor Tillman's message of that year, the amount of license money paid into tbe towns and conn ty treasuries of tbe State, in 1892, was $215,492, and if that big sum was collected that year, wben between forty and fifty towns and villages as well as six whole counties had pro? hibition, it is a safe presumption that a general and judicious licensing of whiskey sales at only eligible places would now yield probably $300,000 *'County bar rooms would tat ber li? cense money for county purposes, while dispensary bara would only save "net income," (if any,) partly to educate the negro . "Besides, license*money from county bars would go to reduce-iaxes, whereas, "net inome* from dispensary or State bar.?, of any kind, would yield mighty little income for public schools or for anything else, because nearly al!, or at least about $200,000 has to go for the j salaries, wages, fees,, shortages, and ffalages of the four or five hundred officers, agents, and employes of the dispensary, who get twiea or three times as much pay us they ought aod should be made to hurtle for a living, cultivating cot son at fife cents, or toil? ing at other hard jobs these bard timer, like other people. "When tbe dispensary went into operation in Joly 1893, there were 612 private licensed bare in full blast, whose license tax as before ?aid, was net profit to the public. Now, the State has only 90 dispensaries, but they cost an immense sum. which most be earned before one dollar is netted to the State. For instance, to say nothing of many other large items of ex? pense, the average aonual cost of each of these dispensaries for salaries alone, is about $2,222 approximately as fol? lows . County board of control, three members for each county, at $90, $ 10,800 90 dispensers at an average of 700, 63,000 90 dispensera* eierks, $350. 3?.000 50 laborers at $1 per day each, 15,000 70 constables at $2 per day , each. 51.000 5 members State board of con? trol at $4 per day each, av? erage $400. 2,000 1 dispensary commissioner's salary. 1,200 2 bookkeepers, 1 shipping clerk, each $1,200, 3,600 1st assistant bookkeeper $900, guager $500, warehouse keeper $500, 2.000 1 State inspector of dispensa? ries, 1,200 433 employes, $202,000 "Hore are 433 dispensary offioers and employes admirably weil paid for tbe work they do th<>?e hard times, and judioiously scattered hither aod thither throughout the State to help one another carry elections for the 'ma ohioe." "I repeat, our ournie* ought not to continue (he helpless politioal nonenti? ties they have been for to many years in respect to whiskies, but should as? sert the freeman's right of self govern? ment io exercising local option abont license, prohibition or free liquor, for the latter in practically what the dis? pensary meaoB now, and they should also put all license money into tbe county treasury, without dividing it either with tbe towns, the public schools or tbe State, as snob revenues should go to the support only of the jails, the poor houses and the lunatic asylums, most of whose inmates are sent tbitber by the license sale of liquor, acording to the prohibitionists, and if they are right, what better use can be made of liceo sed money (ban io repairing tbe direct damages claimed to be done by the alleged aboses. "But I deny that * judicious license increases its consumption, although strong repressive measures sometimes point that way, but such appearance?, are misleading, as the whiskey merely evades the high tax or other rigid laws arid thereby fails to get on the statis - ticacs' booka, but the liquor was made, sold and drank all the same. For in? stance, it is claimed that our 70,000, 000 people only consume at present about one galloo per head per annum, whereas, they formerly averaged nearly three gallons, bot that was when we had no Federal tax aod only a slight State tax, which hardly anybody eared to evade. No statistics are ar, band about smuggling (mooosbining, blind tigering, etc.,*) but every man posted on tbe subject knows that at least two, if not three gallons of whiskey are now consumed m this country for every one that pays this Federal tax of $1 10 per gallon "We know it ta kr t ?east twenty five thousand barre of taxed and smuggled whiskey a year to do the people of Sooth Carolioa. We pay $110 per galloo on most of it, aod retail lioeose to tbe Federal govern? ment besides Non, I again auk why oot let every county io this State quietly collect every year a clear profit lioeose of several thousand dollars to lessen taxes as other States io the onioo do?-especially as reputable whiskey dealers stand ready to pay the lioeose, and sell us pure inspected liquor too, if only the organized poli? tical whiskey machine would let them. Let us quit try tog to deceive ourselves with hypocritical pretenses of absti? nence from liquor. , "X/oaoty lioeose, with local option and proper safeguards, would not only afford every reasonable privilege in regard to whiskey, but it weald also strengthen the public finances. Gov? ernor Ellerbe io bis last aoooal mes? sage, says : 'The finances of the State are in a very unsatisfactory condition ' It never occurred to the governor to abolish free toitioo io the State col? leges, cor to reduce the immense aod extravagant appropriations for Clem? son aod Wiotbrop colleges, nor to stop many other unnecessary drains from the treasury. Nor did it occur to bim to secare additional reveooe, by substituting an eoooomical ooooty li? ce ose for the costly dispensary brigade of office holders, bat what did occur to him aod to bis dispensary allies, was to increase the State tax levy a half mill "Even " * the people are careless about county and Stato public debts,* they ought at least, ?o have enough patriotism and gratitude to eolleet a county license, aod divide it in pen sious among tbe poor old crippled and diseased Confederate soldiers, aod their widows, instead of letting a gang of smugglers, and four or five hu: ired dispensary sinecures and legalised rob bera appropriate all the profits of whis? key selling io the State. Io proportion to the relative wealth and population of the two States, Georgia pays her Con? federate vetraos more than three times aa much pension moo ey as Sooth Caro? lioa pays hers. "As the United States levien ao in? ternal reveooe tax of $1.10 per galloo oo whiskey, mostly to pay pensions to Federal soldiers, why not- let 'each ooooty io Sooth Carolioa pension its owo Confederates, aod dedicate its local ooooty license tax to tbat purpose ? If it were dooe, every old soldier woold become ao efficient whiskey ooo6table to suppress bliod tigers without charg? ing either per diem, or mileage for bis services. I ooaoset the people to vote for no candidate for any office, unless be favors county license, and is against a State bar of any sort. A county licensed bar room would be governed exactly like the dispensary is governed now, so that ali the good features of the dit>peoeary woold be preserved They were taken from oor old lioeose laws, anyway." Queen Regent in Despair. London, Jooe 13 -The Madrid cor? respondent of the Baily News tele graphing by way of Bayonne, says : "General Bianco's Inst dispatch he? ine less eangoioe, the cabinet council discussed whether it should be publish? ed and decided on some verbal altera? tions. Military precautions have been taken at Madrid to quell disturbances when the loevitablo happens. "Reports are again rife that the Queen Hegest wishes to shift the regency to the Infanta Isabella and to let her accept the American conditions, lt is expected tbat Rusria will protest against thc opeo alliance of Admiral Dewey as a belligerent with Aguinaldo, tbe io?urgeot chief '* Judge G B Gerald, of Waco, Texae, who killed the Harris broth? ers, publishers of the Waco Times Herald, io November last, has been acquitted The killing; was tbe out? growth of the trouble started by Hrainn's Iconoclast wheo Bay ?er Uni? versity was attacked. Our Warships Coal There. On board the Associated Press dis patch boat Wanda, off Santiago de Coba, Jane ll, 4 pm. (via Kings? ton, Ja., Jane 12, noon.)-For three days the scene of the chief military and naval operations has been Caimanera and Guantanamo bay. The American flag is flying on the shore an/l in the harbor, first planted on Cuban soil by United States ma? rines from. the transport Panther, under Lieutenant Colonel R W. Huntington, covered by the gnus of the cruiser Marblehead. commanded by Commander McCalla, whose name is a synonym for activity and fight? ing The battleship Oregon has already coaled in the smooth waters of the harbor and has sailed away. The battleship Texas is coaling to day, to be followed by other ships. The squadrons of Rear Admiral Sampson and Commodore Scbley are still off Santiago maintaining.a strict watch day and night to prevent the possibility of the escape of Admiral Cervera From men who have land ed to take observations of the harbor it is learned definitely, all agreeing on the point, that the Spanish cruisers and tiro torpedo boat destroyers are there, but these vessels are regarded by naval experts, after all, as "men in buckram v As a high naval officer remarked to-day : "Spain throughout her whole history has never sought a naval fight and never will She has always dodged and is dodging now. Cer? vera never intended to fight. He intendent to dodge and he has suc? ceeded Spain will never send an- j other fleet to these waters daring the present war " Severe storms prevail in the chan? nel between Santiago de Cuba and Jamaica. The press dispatch boats have encountered these storms for the hst 10 days, making the voyages very difiScult. The heat adds to the discomfort, but a daily service is maintained. To Philippines on Wednesday. The Orders for the Start of the Second Expedition. San Francisco, Jone 12.-Major Geo. Merrtit bas issued verbaf}io*true tiona through Major Geo. Otis to colonels com mao di og regiments and battalions designated to sail ia the seo ood Philippine expedition, to have fin? ished by Tuesday the placing aboard ship of all camp equipments and to be ready to embark their troops by neon on Wedoesday. Artbar Macarthur, the last of tbe brigadier generala of volunteers order? ed to report to Geo. Merritt 8t San ; Francisco for the Manila expedition baa arrived Gen Macarthur cornea direct from Tampa and Chiekatnauga, where be assis'ed in the mobilizing of two armies. Measles threatens to become epi demie among t?e soldiers at Camp Merritt and tbe surgeons io charge of rbe field hospital are bending all their energies to prevent the further spread of tbe malady Fi ff y oases are now under their oare aod dering tbe pa*t three dava six or eight new patient.- a day have been turned over to them. Fortunately it is io a mild form abd patients are doing well AN IMPORTANT RUMOR. London, Jone 13 -A dispatch to Dailv Mai) from Nagatki. Japao, says: "I have trustworthy information that Germany is determined to prevent a bombardment of Manila." THE CASE OP WALTER BETT. St- Thomas D W. I., Jane 12 - Mr Walter Bett, wbo ia ?aid io have been a secretary of Mr. Crawford, the British consol at San Juan de Porto Rico, the laster now acting for tbe United States, arrived here yesterday. Mr. Bett, it appears, was accused of commoaioatiog information to the United States authorises concerning tbe mines and fortifications of San Joan, and be waa therefore ordered to leave Porto Rico. The spaniards elaim thia ts a fitgraot breach of British neutral? ity and daogeroaa to Mr Crawford, unies* it can be proved tbat tbe latter was cot the employer of Mr Bett and that the expelled secretary ia not an? swerable for bis actions to the British government Mr. Bett denies having supplied the ! Uoited States authorities with the io ! formation referred to Thirty one Porto Rican refugees, ? mostly women, also arrived berc ves j tcrday. The newspapers 6?y that two j months of tbe existing conditions will j Briog Porto Rioo to the verge of starvation. The government of the j island bas e6ablisbed a few public kitcb j ens for the relief of those who are j suffering most The Spanish torpedo boat destroyer j Terror is oow regarded as beiog use lew*, owing to the break down of her j boilers and thc lack of means to repair ! them. She ?6 ??ill ac Sao Juan di Porto Ri(0, with the Alf>nso Xiii, j Isabel I. Punce de L?oo. Concha and ; Comacdar. At least they were all ? there wheo tbe refugees left San Juan. ! FIGHTING FOR THIRTEEN HOURS. On board the Associated Press Dispatch Boat Dauntless, off Guan? tanamo, Sunday, June 12, via Mole St. Nicholas. Hayti, June 12 -Lieut. Coi. W. R. Huntington's battalion of marines, which landed from the trans? port Panther on Friday and encamp? ed on the hill guarding the abandon? ed cable station at the entrance to the outer harbor of Guantanamo, has been engaged io beating off a bush attack by Spanish guerrillas and reg? ulars since 3 o'clock Saturday after? noon. The fighting was almost con? tinuous for 13 hours uutil 6 o'clock this morning, when reinforcements were landed fron the Marblehead. Four of our men were killed and one wounded. The advance pickets under Lieutenants Neville and Shaw are unaccounted for. Among the killed is Assistant Sur? geon John Blair Gibbs, son of Major Gibbs of the regular army, who fell itt the Custer massacre His home was at Richmond, Va./ but he had been practicing in New York and he entered the service since the war oe gan Ile was a very popular officer. The others killed are Sergeaot Charles H Smith of Smallwood, Private William Dunphy of Glouchester, Mass , and Private James McCoigan of Stoneham, Mass. Corporal Glass was accidentally wounded io the head The Spanish loss is unknowo, bot it was probably considerable. The splashes of blood found ^at daylight at the position the Spaoiards occu? pied indicate fatalities, but their com? rades carried off the killed aod wounded. The engagement began with desul? tory firing at the pickets, a thousand yards inland from the camp. Cap? tai o Spicer'e com pa cy was doing guard duty and was driven io, finally rallying on the camp and repulsing the enemy at 5 o'clock The bodies of Privates McCoglaa and Dunphy were found, both shot io the head The large cavities caused by the bullets, which, inside a range of 500 yards bavea rotary motion, indicate that the victims were killed at close range. The bodies were stripped of shoes, hats aod cartridge belts aod horribly mutilated with machetes Wheo they were brought io the battalion formed three sides of a hollow square about the camp OD the hill top Below io the bay were the warships at anchor. Inland from the bill camp is a deep ravioe and beyond this are high hills. The adjaceorcouotry is heavy with a thicket growth The sky was blackened with clouds, aod wheo the soo set a gale was blowing seaward Night feil, thick. and impenetrable The Spanish squads, concealed in the chapparel cover, bad the advantage, the Ameri? cans on the ridge furnishing fine tar? gets against the sky and the white tents The Spaniards fought from cover till midnight, discoverable only by Sashes, at wbicb the marines fired volleys The repeaters sounded like crackers in a barrel The Marblehead launch, a Coit machine gun io her bow, pushed'up the bay enfilading (he Spaniards, and it is thought that some were killed. The marines trailed much blood to the water's edge and there lost it Sharks ate numerous in the vicinity. The shps throw their seacblights ashore, the powerful electric eyes sweeping tbe deep tropic foliage aod disclosing occasionally skulking par tics of spaniards It all resembled a transformation scene at the harbor Each discovery of the enemy waa greeted by the cracks of carbine fire along the edge of tbe camp ridge or by the long roll of the launches ma? chine guo, searching the thickets with a leaden stream Shortly after midnight esme the main attack The Spaoiards made a gai:ant charge up the southwest slope, bot were met by repeated, vol'eys from the main cody, and broke before they were one third of the way up the hill ; but they came so close that at points there was almost a hand-to-hand struggle The officers used their revolvers. Three Spaniards got through the open forma? tion to the edge of the camp- Col. Jose Campi?a, the Cuban guide, dis? charged his revolver, and they, turn? ing and finding themselves without support, ran helter skelter down the reverse side of the hill lt was during this assault that Assistant Surgeon Gibbs was killed. He was *hot in the head in front of bis own tent, the farthest point of attack. He fell into tbe arms of Private Sullivan and both diopped. A second bullet threw dustin their faces. Surgeon Gibbs lived 10 minu? tes, hut did not regain consciousness. The surgeon? of the hospital corpa then removed their quarter? to the trenches about the old Spanish stock? ade north of the camp. The attacks were continued at intervals through? out the rest of the night, with firing from small squads in various direc- v lions Toward morning the fire slackened. Dawn is the favorite time for attack,, and, as the east paled, the marines., lying on their guns, were aroused. Some were actually asieep, as they fud had no rest for 48 hours and tir? ed nature could DO longer Staad the strain but no attack came.